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tos. The timber that the woods afford, for the most 

 part, consists of oaks of four or five sorts, all dif- 

 fering in leaves, but each bearing very good 

 acorns. We measured many of the oaks in sev- 

 eral places, which we found to be in bigness, 

 some two, some three, and others almost four 

 fathom in height, before you come to boughs or 

 limbs ; forty, fifty, sixty feet and some more ; and 

 those oaks very common in the upper parts of 

 both rivers ; also a very tall large tree of great 

 bigness, which some call cypress, the right name 

 we know not, growing in swamps ; likewise wal- 

 nut, birch, beech, maple, ash, bay, willow, alder, 

 and holly ; and in the lowermost parts innumera- 

 ble pines, tall and good for boards or masts, grow- 

 ing, for the most part, in barren and sandy, but 

 in some places up the river, in good ground, be- 

 ing mixed amongst oaks and other timbers. We 

 saw mulberry trees, multitudes of grape vines, 

 and some grapes which we ate of. We found a 

 very large and good tract of land on the north- 

 west side of the river, thin of timber, except here 

 and there a very great oak, and full of grass, com- 

 monly as high as a man's middle, and in many pla- 

 ces to his shoulders, where we saw many deer and 

 turkies ; one deer having very large horns and 

 great body, therefore called it stag park. It be- 

 ing a very pleasant and delightful place, we 

 traveled in it several miles, but we saw no end 

 thereof. 



